Chetogena segregata Rondani, 1859

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 295

Chetogena segregata Rondani, 1859

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1859b: 177 (key), 181 (description).

TYPE LOCALITY: “ in toto agro parmensi … ab Insula Melita, et aliud siculum [all the Parmese territory ( Italy) … Malta Island … Sicily ( Italy)]” .

TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, syntype (missing left mid-leg), 2 ♀♀, syntypes (one missing right fore-leg, the other missing left mid-leg) ( MZUF: Box 12): Chetogena Rnd. / segregata Rnd. / 608; 1 ♂, syntype ( MZUF: Box D): Chetogena segregata R., 251, ♂, Parma / 393 251; 1 ♂, syntype ( MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Chetogena segregata R. 68 ♂ ♀ Parma / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 1, posiz. F-11 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci ( PI) ex collezione Rondani; 1 ♀, syntype (abdomen partially eaten by dermestids) ( MSNC: Box DIPTERA Ex collezione Rondani - I): Chetogena segregata Rn. ♀ Parm. / Coll. Rondani, scatola n° 1, posiz. F-12 / Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Pisa, Calci ( PI) ex collezione Rondani; 1 ♀, syntype ( MSNPV: Box 96): Chetogena segregata Rnd. , 133, ♀, Parma.

CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Exorista fasciata ( Fallén, 1820) ( Sabrosky & Arnaud 1965: 1054) , valid species, as Exorista (Exorista) segregata ( Herting & Dely-Draskovits 1993: 123, Pape et al. 1995: 16, Cerretti 2010: 102; O’Hara et al. 2020: 395).

REMARKS: Rondani (1859b: 181) described both sexes of Chetogena segregata without specifying the exact number of specimens and not giving a range of length, from material he had collected and also received from A. Schembri and M. Spinola. We found seven syntypes in this study.